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| Hi all! I am not sure this is the best forum for my question, but I hope you will have patience! :-) I am building a maze-walker and it is quite large... Does anyone have any constructive ideas on how to build the maze itself, so that it is light (...) (25 years ago, 8-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) Mine's not light, but it is sturdy.... FWIW, I sawed up some 6x6" lumber into 2' lengths and backed the bottom face with EPDM. I wasn't really building a maze though, I was making physical "waypoints" for a robot navigation scheme -- sort of (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) My university competes in a maze robot competition, and the maze construction they use seems pretty decent. Start with a flat piece of wood of whatever size you need, with holes drilled on a grid. The holes should snugly accept dowels, each (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) So it'a actually made of custom wooden Lego bricks! :-) It is definitely a flexible solution. (...) Thanks /Vlad (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) You could make it with LEGO Duplo. That's how I make large constructions such as mountains. Play well! Marcus --- Marcus Fischer Mellbin E-mail: marcus no-spam-at fischer-mellbin.com (URL) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| It sounds like you want a maze that you can build on any given floor, such that the floor itself forms the floor of the maze and all you actually supply is the walls. I would suggest buying some 2x4s (as we call them in the U.S.) -- the type of wood (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) that the floor itself forms the floor of the maze and all you actually supply is the walls. Not quite so, I want it to have its own floor, because the idea is to have a special pattern printed on it, to be used as positioning and directioning (...) (25 years ago, 10-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) I'd suggest what we call poster board- large pieces of stiff paper (roughly 80cm*100cm) that can be fit together with tape. If you are going to use the floor for data (and presumably not, then, walls) it is reasonably easy to tape them (...) (25 years ago, 10-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) Oh, but I want walls too! :-) I think a good idea, and reasonably flexible too, would be to have wooden or plastic walls that are held in place with (I am not sure what it's called in English) that stuff used mostly on sport shoes instead of (...) (25 years ago, 10-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) Velcro :) That in fact sounds like a very good idea, but may require a more sturdy foundation than poster board- wood or plastic (as has been suggested) is probably much more appropriate. -Luis ###...### Profanity is the one language that all (...) (25 years ago, 10-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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